Panel interviews of four candidates – even split by gender – to fill a U.S. Marshals Service leadership position provided no basis to find that the proffered reasons for selecting a male candidate were a pretext for gender discrimination. Background ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The actions of 28 Chinese entities selling counterfeit goods on the internet did not arise out of the same transaction or occurrence, and they must be severed into individual suits. Background The Defendants, 28 unrelated individuals and entities located in the People’s ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Panel interviews of four candidates – even split by gender – to fill a U.S. Marshals Service leadership position provided no basis to find that the proffered reasons for selecting a male candidate were a pretext for gender discrimination. Background ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The actions of 28 Chinese entities selling counterfeit goods on the internet did not arise out of the same transaction or occurrence, and they must be severed into individual suits. Background The Defendants, 28 unrelated individuals and entities located in the People’s ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The actions of 28 Chinese entities selling counterfeit goods on the internet did not arise out of the same transaction or occurrence, and they must be severed into individual suits. Background The Defendants, 28 unrelated individuals and entities located in the People’s ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A company that obtained a trademark for the phrase “we buy houses” cannot enforce it, because the phrase was used extensively by industry participants to describe a class of services rather than any particular service provider. Background Plaintiff Express Homebuyers ...

Tagged with: Business Law Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The plaintiff, a former executive, survives summary judgment on several claims arising from her treatment by the company’s CEO during and after a volatile intimate relationship involving threats and abusive behavior. Her husband’s separate claim for Title VII retaliation can ...

Tagged with: Employment Employment Discrimination Judge T.S. Ellis III Personal Injury Tort U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A warrant to search Paul Manafort’s Alexandria condo and to seize various electronic devices and media related to his bank and tax fraud offenses was constitutional on its face and constitutionally executed. Background At issue in this multi-count bank and ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Criminal Judge T.S. Ellis III Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A former CIA officer convicted of four counts of selling state secrets to China won judgment of acquittal on two of those counts. Although the defendant lives in Virginia, there was no evidence he was in the state when he ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Criminal Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The government obtained valid consent to enter a storage unit containing Paul Manafort’s business documents, obtained a valid warrant to seize some of the documents, and properly executed the warrant. Background On May 26, 2017, Special Agent J. Pfeiffer interviewed ...

Tagged with: Constitutional Criminal Judge T.S. Ellis III Search & Seizure U.S. District Court - Eastern District